Volterra: Guarnacci Museum

Here we go again: another museum. Volterra is the home of the Guarnacci Etruscan Museum. We saw many Etruscan artifacts at the Villa Giulia in Rome (see the blog entry for April 21), but we were eager to see much more. (If you are not so keen on 2500 year-old funerary urns and bronze grave goods, you might be well advised to skip ahead to the next entry.)

Our guidebook says that many of the faces on Etruscan monuments are simply generic types, but we tend to disagree. The stone or terra cotta busts we saw on the sarcophagi seem to be portraits of distinctive individuals, not mere types.

Here are the pictures:
https://picasaweb.google.com/SteveDC505/EtruscanMuseum?authkey=Gv1sRgCO2gxdvU-JXmpAE#